Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. February 19, 1942, It forced almost 120,000 Americans of Japanese
ancestry—most of them U.S. citizens—from their homes and into federal detention camps scattered throughout the West,
including California, Arizona, Colorado Wyoming, Utah, and Arkansas. Most spent the war behind barbed wire and under
armed guard in remote areas—without due justice. Japanese Americans were assumed guilty of potential disloyalty solely
on the basis of race. -Smithsonian

Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government's incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of... [Event Details]

The Order. The order authorized the Secretary of War and U.S. armed forces commanders to declare areas of the United States as military areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded,"... [Event Details]